Islamic Extremist are today’s king Herodos say Archbishops
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Jihadists driven by vision of 'apocalypse' warns Welby in stark Christmas message
Britain's two most senior clerics have drawn on the darker side of the nativity story in hard-hitting Christmas sermons warning of the possible "elimination" of Christianity from the region of its birth.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, and Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, both draw comparisons between the Biblical account of the mass murder of children around Bethlehem on the orders of King Herod and the 21st Century Jihadist threat.
In his Christmas morning sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Archbishop Welby is expected to warn that that the so-called Islamic State group - a...